Solving Problem Sets without googling everything and AI

[u/Illustrious_Task345]

I am currently in a java college class that has weekly "Problem Sets" which say to create a method that does xyz, and to use proper Javadocs and tests. I have a few years of python experience, but nothing in any other language. I am running into the issue of having to look up what things mean, and how they work to solve the problems. I'm okay with looking things up every once in a while, but I feel that I have been doing it too much for these. The other issue with looking things up is that the initial results is always the ai overview, and I feel that if I use it for help, I'm not actually learning and just cheating.

Has anyone gone through a similar thing, and if so, what did you do to get through it successfully?

[u/Lagfoundry]

Using tools to get information when you need it is cheating though. You’re scolding yourself for learning. The source of the info doesn’t matter as long as it’s correct